Glorious Ocean By Matthew Hammerton In you, I see the symbols of life and death, of reality and unreality: Primordial life-giving waters Dark depths of shadow and obscurity Endless plains of shifting blue The vigour of youth and the slow, tired, knowing glance of one who has lived through all ages and epochs In your […]
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These windows know all about lakes
Simon Perchik’s most recent poem to appear here was * (February 2013). These windows know all about lakes By Simon Perchik These windows know all about lakes hiding among the dead—by instinct the glass freezes, just so and slowly, you carve two initials as if the name underneath would follow the way a small hole heats the ice, lures the fish […]
Corona/Fugue
Nate Maxson’s most recent poem to appear here was “The Flat Earth Has An Accident” (June 2016) Corona/Fugue By Nate Maxson Corona: the vibration between the breath and the note, but not in our language Not our simple instrument, Ours is a bleary haloed renaissance at best An insomniac shadow around the sun, solve the puzzle […]
The Summer Clouds
The Summer Clouds By Tim Bass We had a stretch of days in June when the clouds came alive. They clustered across the west sky, blue as bruises underneath, peaks sparkling in the brightest, unfiltered whiteness of the sun. For weeks these rainless masses materialized, standing before us so tall and broad that soon I […]
To A Daughter Unknown
Nancy Scott McBride’s most recent poem to appear here was To A Daughter Unknown By Nancy Scott McBride When did it begin, the estrangement? Was it when you were born and I, high-as-a-kite on drugs, insisted that you were a boy? Or was it later, just a kid playing with her doll, I gave you […]
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